What about onions?

Onion slips come delivered in boxes

In the green house we go

Plug them into cells of soil

Thousand and thousands

We fertilize ,water, watch them grow

When the right size we harden them off

Outside on wagon flats

Then to the field we plant them

One by one by hand

Pushed into the soil

Irrigation from Elkhorn creek

Life giving liquid

More fertilizer as they grow

Huge balls they make

While sizing up we pull a few green

Tops and all

To sell

Folks love to eat them like that

Buying at the farmers Market

Shortly they grow past that

As big as your fist or more

The necks soften

We sweat in the summer heat

Pulling them out

Thousands and thousands back on the wagon flats

Cut the tops off

Feel for soft bad onions

Toss on the ground

In the barns under roof to dry

We gather to sell weekly at the Farmers Market

The biggest first

Sweet to slice on burgers

Sandwiches, salads

Cook in soups ,chili , green beans

Corn or potato casseroles

Sautéed in butter , on steak

Stir fry with corn cut off the cob

Mixed with country fried potatoes

Diced onions over beef roast in the oven

Or pressure cooker

Sliced raw in bean soup with corn bread

Grilled onion slices with tomatoes or potatoes too

Olive oil sprinkled over or butter

Great simmered and browned in with summer squash

Zucchini,eggplant,sweet bell peppers

Stuff the Thanksgiving turkey with onions before baking

Mix them in dressing.

Boil a chicken with onions

When cool make chicken salad -

Add more finely chopped onions

I like onions in my scrambled eggs !

That names a few ways to eat onions

We sell them all

Within a few months

Winter time

Time to order the slips again!